suspended

Meanings

Verb

• hang freely
  • "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
• cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
• bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
• stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
• make inoperative or stop
• render temporarily ineffective
  • "the prison sentence was suspended"
• simple past and past participle of suspend

Adjective Satellite

• (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment
  • "suspended matter such as silt or mud..."
  • "dust particles suspended in the air"

Adj

• Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.
• suspended animation
• Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.
• suspended sentence
• Hung from above.
• Attached slightly below the summit of the ovary.
• Paid for but not consumed by a customer, so that it can be given to a less fortunate person.
• A chemical suspension
• Having had its third omitted and replaced with a major second or perfect fourth.

Synonyms

abeyant, debar, delayed, dormant, freeze, inactive, paused, set aside, suspend